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. 1981 Sep;147(3):757–767. doi: 10.1128/jb.147.3.757-767.1981

Mitochondrial biogenesis during fungal spore germination: respiration and cytochrome c oxidase in Neurospora crassa.

S Stade, R Brambl
PMCID: PMC216111  PMID: 6268605

Abstract

The germination of conidiospores of wild-type Neurospora crassa was found to be dependent upon the function of the cytochrome-mediated electron transport pathway. The cyanide-insensitive alternate oxidase did not contribute significantly to the respiration of these germinating spores. The dormant spores contained all of the cytochrome components and a catalytically active cytochrome c oxidase required for the activity of the standard respiratory pathway, and these preserved components were responsible for the accelerating rates of oxygen uptake which began immediately upon suspension of the spores in an incubation medium. Mitochondria of the dormant spores contained all of the subunit peptides of the functional cytochrome c oxidase; nevertheless, de novo synthesis of these subunits began at low rates in the first stages of germination. Reactivation of the respiratory system of germinating N. crassa spores seems not to be dependent initially upon the function of either the mitochondrial or cytoplasmic protein-synthesizing systems. The respiratory activity of spores of three mutant cytochrome c oxidase-deficient strains of N. crassa also was found to depend upon the function of the cytochrome electron transport pathway; the dormant and germinating spores of these strains contained a catalytically active cytochrome c oxidase. Cytochrome c oxidase may be present in the dormant and germinating spores of these strains as the result of a developmental-phase-specific synthesis of and requirement for the enzyme.

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